#erica

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home. ↗

— Robert Matsui

#all americans #bad #challenging #challenging times #economic

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it. ↗

— David Axelrod

#average #average american #create #crisis #going

When I walk out on that stage, I just want America to know, that this is what I'm supposed to do. This is my dream. ↗

— Pia Toscano

#dream #i #just #know #out

In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#around #bit #end #english #favor

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#background #foreground #landscape #mind

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#america #came #i #i came #ourselves

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#building #deeply #into #north #north america

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

#also #americana #bands #gritty #i

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation. ↗

— Randy Forbes

#america #defense #economic #exploration #important